Re: Classloading problem

Erik Weber Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:53:08 -0700

Ivan, as you can see I've tried everything I can think of. Perhaps when I have more time I will mess around with it some more, but it's easier just to use JBoss.

I appreciate your help (and Kris's).

Erik


Ivan Vasquez wrote:

Also, the name under which it gets to conf/Catalina/localhost is
<app_name_folder>.xml
Inside, path and docBase are untouched. No war extensions anywhere.
BTW, these are tomcat 5.0.16, just in case.
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 5:17 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Classloading problem
[eweber]$ jar tf $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/Foo.war
. . .
META-INF/context.xml
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
. . .
Right?
Erik
Ivan Vasquez wrote:
Erik, here goes my context.xml, Tomcat renames it the same as the app's
directory. I assume your Tomcat has autodeploy enabled.
  <Context path="/nahrgisdev" docBase="nahrgisdev" debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">  <Resource name="jdbc/orcl" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/orcl"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>driverClassName</name> <value>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</value> </parameter>  <parameter> <name>url</name> <value>jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(LOAD_BALANCE=on)(ADDRESS=(PROTOC
O

L=TCP)(HOST=node1)(PORT=1521))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=node2)(PORT=

1
521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=orcl)))</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>username</name>
           <value>*****</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>password</name>
           <value>*****</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>maxActive</name>
           <value>10</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>maxIdle</name>
           <value>10</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>maxWait</name>
           <value>-1</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>removeAbandoned</name>
           <value>true</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>removeAbandonedTimeout</name>
           <value>60</value>
        </parameter>
        <parameter>
           <name>logAbandoned</name>
           <value>true</value>
        </parameter>
        </ResourceParams>
</Context>
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Classloading problem

I have tried this repeatedly. I am using the same Foo.xml file that
does

work when placed in conf/Catalina/localhost/. I have tried with and without the path and docBase attributes to the Context element. I have renamed the file to context.xml and it is in META-INF in my war file. I

have also tried putting Foo.xml or context.xml within a META-INF/context.xml/ *directory* as the documentation suggests.

DBCP throws an Exception on startup that it cannot create a JDBC driver

of class '' for connect URL 'null'. I am supposing that the context

file
is never loaded. Also Tomcat creates a Foo.xml directory inside of conf/Catalina/localhost with nothing in it. If I try restarting the server, I also get a FileNotFoundException on Foo.xml, saying it "is a directory" (good grief). I have tried hot deploy and deploying via the manager web app as well.
I basically observed the same behavior that Ivan described.
I would love to see that example if you can find it.
Erik
Kris Schneider wrote:
Hang on, my bad - it should be /META-INF/context.xml. So, rename
Foo.xml to be
context.xml and place it in *META-INF*.
Quoting Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Kris, this is from context.html in the Tomcat 5 docs:*
Please note that for tomcat 5.x, unlike tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended to place <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file.* Instead, put them in the META-INF/context.xml directory of
your
WAR file or the conf directory as described above.
So here I am, stupidly trying to put my Foo.xml file within /META-INF/context.xml/ (and various variations of that) of my web
app.
So should I rename Foo.xml to context.xml (I ask because in the conf directory I have been naming it Foo.xml, not context.xml), and put it

in
*WEB-INF*?
Could you show me where you found how to do this in the docs? Am I
just
completely misreading the above sentence?
Thanks for your help,
Erik
Kris Schneider wrote:
Can you provide some more detail on the problems you're running into
with
using
WEB-INF? I've got a simple one lying around here somewhere...
WEB-INF/context.xml:
--------------------
<Context path="/init">
<Loader delegate="false"/>
<Manager pathname=""/>
</Context>
Seems to work fine with TC 5...
Quoting Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Also, since you appear to be trying to follow the documenation,
have

you

ever gotten a Context XML file placed within the META-INF directory

of

your web app to work? I can't get this to work (I have gotten them

to

work when placed in the conf directory -- though I had to learn the

hard

way to take write permissions away from Tomcat after it very rudely
deleted one). The documentation is confusing, and the example web

app

mysteriously does not include a Context XML file at all, despite

that

pretty much any serious web app is going to need one (unless you

declare
everything in server.xml).
If you have an example of this working, please share it with me.
Erik
Ivan Vasquez wrote:
Sure, in common/lib it works well. But from Tomcat docs: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/class-loader-howto
.
html
The following rules cover about 95% of the decisions that
application
developers and deployers must make about where to place class and
resource files to make them available to web applications:
* For classes and resources specific to a particular web application, place unpacked classes and resources under
/WEB-INF/classes
of your web application archive, or place JAR files containing
those
classes and resources under /WEB-INF/lib of your web application archive. * For classes and resources that must be shared across all
web
applications, place unpacked classes and resources under
$CATALINA_BASE/shared/classes, or place JAR files containing those
classes and resources under $CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib.
--Then goes on...---
Common - This class loader contains additional classes that are
made
visible to both Tomcat internal classes and to all web
applications.
Normally, application classes should NOT be placed here. All
unpacked
classes and resources in $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes, as well as
classes and resources in JAR files under the
$CATALINA_HOME/commons/endorsed and $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
directories, are made visible through this class loader.
Shared - This class loader is the place to put classes and
resources
that you wish to share across ALL web applications (unless Tomcat internal classes also need access, in which case you should put
them in
the Common class loader instead). All unpacked classes and
resources in
$CATALINA_BASE/shared/classes, as well as classes and resources in
JAR
files under $CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib, are made visible through
this
class loader.
----
In our case we want to share jars common to all applications, but
none
of them are required by Tomcat.
Ivan.
-----Original Message----- From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:52 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Classloading problem

I have been using 5.0.27, putting my JDBC drivers in common/lib,
and my

struts jars in WEB-INF/lib of each application, and haven't had
any
problems. Why do you say "incorrectly"?
Erik
Ivan Vasquez wrote:
We have Tomcat 5.0.16 and were incorrectly placing common jars
(such as
JDBC drivers) in /common/lib.

Now we just moved them to /shared/lib (for truly common stuff)
and
WEB-INF/lib, but now all applications complain giving a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException, just like if things weren't in Tomcat's classpath anymore. Apps and Tomcat restarts have been
done
several times.
Is there anything in web.xml, server.xml, etc that needs to be
set?
What
are we possibly missing? Tomcat docs are pretty straightforward
about
it
and everything seems right.
Once again, thanks in advance. Ivan.
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